Self-reliance and self-sufficiency are the important strategy held fast to by the Workers’ Party of Korea consistently in the socialist construction.
Revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and self-sufficiency is a powerful weapon bringing the hostile forces’ sanctions to naught and turning misfortunes into blessings.
The hostile forces are now stubbornly resorting to brigandish sanctions and blockades in order to check the DPRK’s dynamic progress.
They aim to impose high-intensity sanctions upon the countries where their political and military pressure do not work and suffocate them economically and weaken the revolutionary fighting spirit of the people.
They are moving foolishly as if they held the DPRK’s lifeline while maximizing sanctions against it.
The hostile forces’ sanctions never move the Korean people who are strong in national dignity.
The Juche Korea remains unchanged as it has mighty economic potentials and powerful scientific and technical forces no matter how desperate the enemy may move.
The more manifold the trials and difficulties are, the more clearly the vitality of self-reliance is proved.
Even under the severe sanctions of hostile forces, the Korean people have ac
The revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and self-sufficiency is the powerful driving force that enables the DPRK to make rapid development.
It is impossible to overtake and outstrip others in the development speed if one relies on others’ strength, technology and resources.
Only with the spirit of self-reliance, self-sufficiency, one can have wits and the best methods to develop and create by leaps and bounds and the resolute fighting spirit of creation of making what one does not have and procuring what is in short.
Today’s self-reliance is based on modern science and technology.
The revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and self-sufficiency prevailing over the society paves a broad avenue for steady prosperity by dint of science and technology by rapidly increasing the scientific and technological strength of the country.
Huge are the foundations and potentials of the independent economy built by the Korean people in the DPRK while covering the road of arduous and severe revolution.
The revolutionary spirit of self-reliance and self-sufficiency enables the Korean people to have the ideological and mental traits befitting the builders of socialism.
Quality of a revolutionary is formed and consolidated in the practical struggle.
Creation campaign of self-reliance is furnace that trains the people for genuine revolutionaries.
The revolutionary conviction not to become a slave of imperialism even though one loses one's life, the powerful capability to remain alive only with water and air and the will to build a paradise of happiness to be envied by the world by taking ten, hundred steps when others take one step--these are the fighting spirit and disposition peculiar to a self-reliant strong person.
Today the Workers’ Party of Korea requires holding higher the banner of self-reliance and self-sufficiency so as to train all the people, in particular, the younger generations to be indomitable revolutionaries and genuine builders of socialism.
The road of self-reliance and self-sufficiency is an untrodden path that cannot be covered by those who do not believe in their own strength, those who are captivated by defeatism.
Difficulties and trials are on the road of advance to successfully attain the goals of 5-year strategy for state economic development.
However, no force on earth can check the advance of Juche Korea who rushes toward the bright future as it has the great tradition of self-reliance, which has been inherited through generations, and the indomitable people who are ready to go through fire and water if the Party calls them.
